Dana Milbank: Secret programs reveal disgust in government

4:52 PM,
Jun. 11, 2013

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Dana Milbank

Keep your distance: The director of national intelligence is having intestinal distress.

"For me, it is literally - not figuratively, literally - gut-wrenching to see this happen," James Clapper told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell over the weekend, referring to leaks about the government's secret program to collect vast troves of phone and Internet data.

There might be a bit more sympathy for Clapper's digestive difficulty if he hadn't delivered a kick in the gut to the American public just three months ago. ...